Filmmaker Aron Gaudet and producer Gita Pullapilly talk about their film, "The Way We Get By," which takes an intimate look at three elderly troop greeters in Maine, one of whom is Gaudet's mother Joan. (8 minutes)

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Filmmakers Yoni Brook and Musa Syeed talk about their film, "Bronx Princess," which follows Rocky Otoo, the sassy teenage daughter of Ghanaian parents. After Rocky rebels against her mother's rule in the Bronx, she fleds to her father, a chief in Ghana. (5 minutes)

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Filmmaker Annie P. Waldman talks about her short film, "So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away," which tells the story of a determined group of teenagers living alone in New Orleans two years after Hurricane Katrina. (4 minutes)

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Filmmakers Tod Lending and David Mrazek talk about their film, "The Principal Story," which follows two public school principals over the course of a year as they make a difference in the lives of their students. (7 minutes)

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Filmmaker Geoffrey Smith talks about his film, "The English Surgeon," which follows Dr. Henry Marsh, a neurosurgeon who is committed to relieving suffering and bringing hope to a desperate people in the Ukraine. (8 minutes)

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Filmmakers Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco talk about their film, "Ella Es El Matador (She is the Matador)," which follows two female matadors who are gender pioneers due to their passion for bullfighting. (6 minutes)

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Filmmaker Georgi Lazarevski talks about his film, "This Way Up," which features the fesity, fascinating residents of a nursing home in the West Bank that has been isolated by the security barrier being constructed by Israel. (8 minutes)

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Filmmaker Eva Weber talks about her short documentary, "City of Cranes," which takes the viewer into the poetic, mesmerizing world of cranes. Watch the entire film online. (4 minutes)

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Filmmaker Nicholas Berger talks about his short documentary, "Nutkin's Last Stand," about the battle between the English red squirrel and the North American grey squirrel. Watch the entire film . (5 minutes)

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Filmmaker Jesse Epstein talks about her short documentary, "34x35x36," which examines issues of body image by heading to a mannequin factory. Watch the entire film online. (4 minutes)

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Filmmaker Sam Green talks about his short documentary, "Utopia Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall," which takes a look at an empty mall in China. Watch the entire film online. (4 minutes)

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Filmmaker Kim Longinotto talks about the making of "Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go," an unblinking look at Oxford's Mulberry Bush School for emotionally disturbed children. (5 minutes)

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Filmmakers Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath talk about "The Betrayal," their Academy Award-nominated documentary about the Phrasavath family's escape from Laos after the Vietnam War. In America, they find a different kind of war. (5 minutes)

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Filmmakers Pamela Yates, Paco de Onis and Peter Kinoy talk about their film, "The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court." The film follows the court as it tries to prosecute the perpetrators of genocide. (8 minutes)

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Filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzgar talks about the making of "Life. Support. Music.," which follows guitarist Jason Crigler, who suffers a brain hemorrhage on stage, and his astonishing journey to recovery. (5 minutes)

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Filmmaker Olivier Meyrou talks about "Beyond Hatred," the story of a family's struggle to seek justice for their murdered son while trying to transcend hatred and the desire for revenge. (5 minutes)

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Filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor talks about her film, "New Muslim Cool," which follows Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Perez, who pulled himself out of street life 12 years ago and became a Muslim. (10 minutes)

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NPR reporter Joanne Silberner talked to Obama adviser Ezekiel Emanuel and Families USA executive director Ron Pollack about why there's hope on the horizon for those who want to improve American health care. (38 minutes)

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Filmmakers Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg talk about "Soldiers of Conscience," which profiles 8 American soldiers, including four who decide not to kill and become conscientious objectors, and four who believe in their duty to kill if necessary. (18 minutes)

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Filmmakers Yung Chang ("Up the Yangtze"), Ellen Perry ("Great Wall Across the Yangtze") and David Redmon ("Mardi Gras: Made in China") talk to independent producer Karin Chien about the challenges and rewards of making documentaries in contemporary China. (44 minutes)

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WNYC's Political Director Andrea Bernstein interviews Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt and filmmaker Roger Weisberg about the candidates' health care plans and the economics of health care in the U.S. and abroad. (23 minutes)

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When Chicago filmmaker Joanna Rudnick tested positive for the "breast cancer gene" at age 27, she knew the information could save her life. The question was what to do about it. Joanna talks about her film, "In the Family," which documents her journey. (23 minutes)

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How would John McCain and Barack Obama reform America's health care system? KCBS reporter Doug Sovern moderated a debate held at California's Commonwealth Club on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, to learn how each candidate would approach this looming issue. (65 minutes)

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"Critical Condition" asks what happens if you fall sick and are one of 47 million people in American without health insurance, and follows four critically ill Americans who are uninsured. Filmmaker Roger Weisberg talks about the process of making the film. (17 minutes)

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Renee Tajima-Pena and Evangeline Griego talk about their film "Calavera Highway," which follows brothers Armando and Carlos Pena, who carry their mother's ashes to Texas in a roadtrip that turns into a quest for answers about their family history. (20 minutes)

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Filmmaker Robert Elfstrom talks about capturing the Man in Black in his 1969 film, "Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music." (16 minutes)

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Filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda talks about his film "Campaign," which provides a startling insider's view of Japanese democracy through its portrait of a man plucked from obscurity by the ruling party to run for a critical city council seat. (17 minutes)

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Filmmaker Kieran Fitzgerald talks about his film, "The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez," which chronicles the shooting of an American citizen at the U.S./Mexico Border by the U.S. Marines. (19 minutes)

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"Election Day," shot over the course of November 2, 2004, documents the street-level experience of voters in today's America. Filmmaker Katy Chevigny talks about the process of making the film. (17 minutes)

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In "Traces of the Trade", filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. History. Katrina talks about her journey and her film. (19 minutes)

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Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock talks about how she became interested in the subject of her film, "Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner," how she pursued him and why she thinks he is an inspirational figure. (12 minutes)

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Filmmaker Michael Apted talks about the drama of ordinary life in his film "49 Up," the seventh installment of the Up Series, one of documentary cinema's most remarkable enterprises, and according to Apted, "the most important work" that he's ever done. (34 minutes)

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Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, talks to journalist Michele Kort of Ms. Magazine about the horrors of sexual violence and its aftermath in the Congo. A special podcast released in conjunction with the POV broadcast of the film Lumo. (16 minutes)

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Filmmakers Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Nelson Walker III talk about their film "Lumo," which follows Lumo Sinai, a young woman in eastern Congo who fell victim to rape. Lumo's rape left her with a fistula, which is a chronic condition that leaves women incontinent. (14 minutes)

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How far would you go to stop a war? For a group of Catholic Left activists during the Vietnam War, the answer involved breaking into a draft board office. Filmmaker Anthony Giacchino talks about making his film, "The Camden 28." (10 minutes)

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Filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar talk about the making of their film "Made in L.A.," which follows three Latina garment workers as they participate in a boycott campaign against Forever 21, a clothing retailer whose clothes they sew. (13 minutes)

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Filmmakers Doug Hawes-Davis and Drury Gunn Carr talk about their film "Libby, Montana," which documents the story of a seemingly ideal American town that was also the site of the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in U.S. history. (11 minutes)

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The clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds in a remote village 80 miles above the Arctic Circle in "Arctic Son." Filmmaker Andrew Walton talks the process of making the film and how he built trust with his characters. (11 minutes)

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Filmmaker Elizabeth Westrate talks about her film "A Family Undertaking," which explores the growing home-funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of life. (10 minutes)

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Filmmaker Mel Stuart has been directing feature films and documentaries for over 40 years. Listen as he reflects on the making of "The Hobart Shakespeareans" and why, along with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, he counts it among his favorites. (12 minutes)

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Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck talks about his film, "Following Sean." Arlyck first met 4 year old Sean in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury at the height of the 1960s. Thirty years and a lifetime later, Arlyck returns in search of the adult Sean might have become. (11 minutes)

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Hear from filmmakers Po Kutchins and Katie Galloway, who talk about their film "Prison Town, USA," which tells the story of Susanville, California, one small town that tries to resucitate its economy by building a prison - with unanticipated consequences. (11 minutes)

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"The Chances of the World Changing" chronicles Richard Ogust, who kept 1,200 turtles in his Manhattan apartment in an effort to save endangered turtles. Filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzgar talks about the film, airing on POV on July 17, 2007. (8 minutes)

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Listen to a special panel of historians and activists discuss the 1967 Newark riots and their aftermath. Recorded at the New Jersey Historical Society's special screening of "Revolution '67." (21 minutes)

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Filmmaker Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno talks about the making of her film, "Revolution '67," which chornicles the six-day Newark, New Jersey urban rebellion that occurred forty years ago. (8 minutes)

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Filmmakers Suree Towfighnia and Courtney Hermann talk about their film "Standing Silent Nation," about a Lakota family that planted hemp, a relative of marijuana that is illegal to grow in the U.S. (8 minutes)

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This week, filmmakers Zach Niles and Banker White talk about how they came to make "Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars," an extraordinary story of a group of refugees who fight back with music. The film premieres on POV on Tuesday, June 26, 2007. (12 minutes)

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In this week's podcast, filmmaker Anne Makepeace talks about her inspiration for "Rain in a Dry Land," the plight of refugees in America and the ethical challenges of making a verite film. The film premieres on June 19, 2007 on POV (14 minutes)

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POV's executive producer Simon Kilmurry talks about upcoming 2007 films, including "Rain in a Dry Land" which opens POV's 20th anniversary season on June 19, and "Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars" which follows a group of refugees from Sierra Leone as they make music to heal trauma and wounds from civil war. (5 minutes)

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George Packer, author of "The Assassins' Gate," joins filmmaker Laura Poitras and Maria Hinojosa from PBS's NOW for a special conversation about the war in Iraq and "My Country, My Country," a film about the January 2005 elections in Iraq.

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Filmmakers Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre talk about the making of their film, "Maquilapolis: City of Factories."

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Filmmaker Steven Delano, a little person, talks about making "No Bigger Than a Minute," starring...himself! With irreverent humor, the film shows what it's like to be a dwarf in front of and behind the camera.

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Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris talks about his motivation for making "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela," a journey of reconciliation with his late stepfather, B. Pule Leinaeng, a South African exile and early supporter of Nelson Mandela.

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Hear from filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, who talk about their motivations for making "The Boys of Baraka," and the boys themselves, who talk about what they've been up to since filming ended, and who ask Heidi and Rachel a few questions.

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POV's executive producer Cara Mertes talks about two upcoming POV films in September, 2006. "The Boys of Baraka" is about African-American boys, and "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela" is about a South African supporter of Nelson Mandela.

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In conjunction with the POV broadcast of "Waging a Living" on August 29th, journalist David Brancaccio hosts a special podcast conversation with Barbara Ehrenreich on the state of American workers and wages today.

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In conjunction with the POV broadcast of "Waging a Living" on August 29th, this podcast features Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman talking to experts about the nation-wide struggle for a living wage, and the future of the living wage movement.

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In conjunction with the POV broadcast of "Waging a Living" on August 29th, this podcast features historian Howard Zinn talking with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman about the history of workers' movements in the United States.

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In conjunction with the POV broadcast of "Waging a Living" on August 29th, this podcast features Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman talking with experts about poverty in New York City and the struggle toward a living wage.

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In conjunction with the broadcast of "Waging a Living", Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman talks with experts about the passage of the Big Box Ordinance in Chicago, which requirs large retailers to pay their workers $10 an hour with $3 in benefits by 2010.

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Filmmaker Roger Weisberg talks about how he found the people featured in "Waging a Living," why there is a lack of media coverage of this issue and his use of cinema verite style in the film.

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Filmmaker Natalia Almada talks about the making of "Al Otro Lado," a documentary about the proud Mexican tradition of corrido music, and an examination of songs, drugs and dreams along the U.S./Mexico border.

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Executive Director Cara Mertes talks about two upcoming POV films. "Al Otro Lado" and "Lomax the Songhunter" are are documentaries about the storytelling potential of music, in this case, Mexican corrido and European folk music.

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Filmmaker Adele Horne talks about what drew her to make a film about a group of evangelical missionaries who use ultra-low-tech hand-crank recordings of Bible stories to reach people in the most isolated areas of the world.

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Filmmaker Ellen Perry talks about the making of "The Fall of Fujimori" and the lessons that Americans might learn from Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's aggressive and violent war on terrorism during the 1990s.

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In this week's podcast, filmmaker Anders Østergaard talks about Hergé and the audio interview the cartoonist gave to a young journalist in 1971 which provided the basis for "Tintin and I," Hergé's art and style, and Østergaard's approach to documentary filmmaking.

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Filmmaker Kenneth Eng and producer Alex Shear talk about the making of "Kokoyakyu," a documentary that chronicles two Japanese high school baseball teams as they compete in the national tournament known as "Koshien," and former NY Mets manager Bobby Valentine talks about the differences between American and Japanese baseball culture.

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Filmmaker Helene Klodawsky discusses the making of her film that chronicles the events leading up to the assassination of human rights activist, Rajani Thiranagama, in Sri Lanka in 1989.

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POV's Executive Director, Cara Mertes, talks about the 2006 season with audio previews of some of the films in the summer schedule. POV begins on Tuesday, June 27th at 10 PM on your PBS station. Video trailers are available for all films at pbs.org/pov.

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Keith Reinhard, chairman of Business for Diplomatic Action, talks to POV's Borders about how the world sees America. This is the second installment in a series of podcasts.

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POV's Borders: American ID Border Talk guest Keith Reinhard, chairman of Business for Diplomatic Action, talks about how the world sees America. This is the first installment in a series of podcasts.

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"Advertising Democracy" producer Gregory Warner talks to a U.S. Information Agency librarian, a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a Jordanian teen talk show host, and a nation branding expert about America's attempts to advertise itself.

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